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    Driverless buses are tooling around San Francisco’s Treasure Island in a test for the next few months.

    The autonomous shuttles offer free rides along a fixed, seven-stop route in the artificial island’s center from August 2023 to April 2024 (via AP News).

    Called The Loop, the shuttle has no steering wheel, but an onboard attendant can take over with a handheld remote if needed, according to Insider. Its maker, Beep, previously tested it as a medical supply transport in Florida in 2020.

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    It looks like Google is planning to revamp its camera app UI alongside the Pixel 8.

    Leaker Kamila Wojciechowska wrote up some leaked updates to Google’s camera app UI — changes she says in her Android Authority story will arrive alongside the still-unannounced Pixel 8.

    Changes mostly look like tweaks to how you access settings or change camera modes, and one — swiping up to get to settings — sounds like a nice reachability adjustment.

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    Wes Davis
    Cruise is cutting its San Francisco robotaxi fleet in half.

    Prompted by a collision Thursday between one of Cruise’s robotaxis and a fire truck, Cruise has agreed to reduce its fleet after being asked to by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, writes The New York Times.

    The regulator says it’s investigating Cruise incidents, and pending the outcome of that, it “reserves the right... to suspend or revoke testing and/or deployment permits.”

    Wes Davis
    Wes Davis
    All of them promised me.

    Setting aside the idea that a motorized standing desk that lets you sit and stand throughout your day might actually help with back pain, this song by Tom McGovern sums up why I’ve never tried a standing desk.

    That and, candidly, I really don’t have the emotional energy to undo my displays’ wall mounts and patch all the holes.

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    Wes Davis
    Oh hey, Samsung is making a foldable tablet that’s not the Galaxy Z Fold.

    TM Roh, Samsung’s mobile division head, slipped in a little tidbit about the company’s future foldable plans in an interview with The Independent last month: “foldables will expand into other categories like the tablet and PC.”

    Samsung wouldn’t be the first to go big in the market. Lenovo has already gone there twice with the ThinkPad, as has Asus with a folding ZenBook. But Samsung’s experience doesn’t count for nothing — it’ll be interesting to see what it’s cooking.

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    Wes Davis
    The County Attorney for Marion County, Kansas says police didn’t have the evidence to raid a local newspaper.

    County Attorney Joel Ensey, effectively Marion County’s prosecutor, asked police to return the equipment they took in last week’s thorough judge-authorized raid of The Marion County Record.

    The Record’s equipment was taken on Friday after the paper notified police of information that it believed was given in bad faith about a local restauranteur’s drunk driving conviction. Police reacted by accusing the paper of identity theft and computer crimes, then took its equipment using a warrant it didn’t try to justify until days later.

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    Wes Davis
    “What precisely is fleets?”

    Those are words a US District Court Judge said to Twitter’s attorney, Ari Holtzblatt, during a February hearing about Donald Trump’s Twitter data. Holtzblatt had no idea:

    MR. HOLTZBLATT: It is similar to tweets, and I don’t know more than that, Your Honor.

    THE COURT: You don’t use “fleets.”

    MR. HOLTZBLATT: I had not heard of fleets until this morning.

    THE COURT: And was fleet used on this account?

    MR. HOLTZBLATT: It is a vanishing tweet.

    THE COURT: A vanishing tweet.

    MR. HOLTZBLATT: I guess fleet — that makes sense, fleeting.

    Yes, Mr. Holtzblatt. It sure does.

    A screenshot of a portion of the transcript from a February hearing on Trump’s Twitter account.
    Mr. Holtzblatt’s dawning understanding is so very relatable.
    Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge